"if you can't tell your dreams from your reality, maybe this is your dream"

[yo_san]

So, I've still got a few things that need to be wrapped up via e-mail, but otherwise I've got a couple of weeks of vacation now. And it is glorious. ...Though I didn't have a heart to tell someone who is basically my mentor/father-figure at work when he asked that I am going to celebrate getting some vacation time by trying to come up with a witty

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[yo_san]

1) I'd have issues to play it out largely because I'm not sure why Kyon would like Haruhi back when I imagine his feelings started, in which I feel that Haruhi was a big jerk. ...Well, I can think of a few reasons, but they aren't things that make sense to me personally. I mean, the reasons I can think of make sense, just ones that I wouldn't find to be enough even if I can understand someone else feeling were enough. I don't really have any issues with it as something to watch, even if I'm not interested in it myself--it's just something I wouldn't be able to do convincingly. This probably ties in partially due to the fact that I don't know how convincingly I could play out romance in general.

2) Ah, I had wondered whether it might have just been in the anime. The way people talked, it sounded like Itsuki at least pretended to flirt with Kyon and I was wondering if I was being dense.

3) ...Thought that I may have gotten the names mixed up.

4&5) Well, I might debate on the crush part, but that's largely because I am often reluctant to consider something a crush without it being outright stated (otherwise, my instinct is to have permanent shipping goggles superglued to my face). I'd say the evidence is pretty darn convincing, though, on both accounts. If I did have to pick a ship for Kyon, I admit I'd be more inclined to pick Yuki, but that's only due to not really being interested in any of the options and I would be admitting to myself the whole time that it'd never happen.

[saltprince]

1) I can see it. For one she's gorgeous and for two she's everything he ever wanted even if he denied he wanted it. She's energetic, social, outgoing (all far more so than him), makes his life interesting, motivates him (something that no one else in the series can really do, including Mikuru), and generally adds something to his life that he wouldn't otherwise have. On top of that she's cute, smart, and funny. Even the bad parts of her personality (and there are a lot of them) for the most part aren't things overtly horrible so much as just a flawed world outlook and a tad of emotional distance from people which leads to things like possessive ownership with Mikuru (which leads to said molestation that he lets slide).

But then, every girl ever who has gotten into the series that I know has said they think Haruhi's a jerk so I guess that's expected from yo- /shot

5) Itsuki overly says that he "fancies" (likes/loves/whatever you wanna call it, I usually see it translated as fancies or likes) Haruhi in the fourth novel. To be fair this is a basically AU Itsuki but it is the same person albeit with slightly different circumstances. What's more, he says she's charming all through the first through third novels, jealously tells Kyon that she likes him repeatedly through those same novels, and in E8 during the fifth novel he regretfully (it's noted to be as such) says he isn't suited to be the one to say "I love you" to her.

[yo_san]

1) /blows off gunsmoke

Well, I agree with pretty much all of your reasons (though I'm not actually remembering anything where I'd count Haruhi as "funny" but it's probably because I haven't read it since last summer, probably). I guess I just tend to see her...I'd call it bratty, personally, way of getting her own way with not much empathy first, though it does get a lot better as time goes on. And that kind of slows me down when it comes to seeing her attractive points. Then again, I don't value the same things Kyon does and that probably slows me from seeing it in the same way.

5) Well, that's even stronger than I remembered (it's been a while). Granted, I tend to be unsure how much of what Itsuki says at face value, but I think I'd feel reasonably confident in thinking at least some of that is true.